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Alphabet Rockers: Kids’ Music Group Dedicated to Justice, Kindness and Rocking Out

This is the question Tommy Shepherd and Kaitlin McGaw – founders of justice-oriented kids’ music group Alphabet Rockers – ask themselves over and over. As award-winning artists and parents, they know hip-hop can be a catalyst for conversation, connection and a culture of freedom. That’s why they make music that gets kids thinking about how to be good humans. Thousands…

September 21, 2017 No Comments

First Sustainable ‘Agrihood’ Gives Free Produce to 2,000 Detroit Residents

One of Earth’s greatest challenges today is finding ways to give everyone access to nutritious and sustainable food. We know – small countryside farms. But how can we work with what we have today to generate sustainable grub? Let’s talk *agrihood*, a new concept that promotes a localized relationship between living, eating, and working. It’s not new age mumbo jumbo,…

September 20, 2017 No Comments

Nine-Year-Old Building Shelters for the Homeless

Fort wrestled with the idea of homelessness at age 5. Ever since she noticed a homeless person in Kitsapp County, Washington, Hailey Fort has dedicated her childhood to helping people who don’t have homes. She couldn’t understand why some people didn’t have a place to stay and she wanted to do something about it. “I think everyone should have a…

September 19, 2017 No Comments

Rain Dove Says There’s Magic Between the Binary

Rain Dove wants to be boring. They grew up in rural Vermont where they had a wild stint pretending to be a male firefighter. Rain took up modeling after losing a bet to a friend. That bet, turns out, landed them on front pages around the world for being a model actively redefining gender in a field notoriously in love…

September 18, 2017 No Comments

Palestinian Muslim Comedian Breaking Rules

Maysoon Zayid is smashing stereotypes with love and laughter. She’s a Palestinian Muslim from Jersey living with Cerebral Palsy and she loves breaking rules. Like, you know, the one that says standup comedians don’t sit down. Or, that women can’t be funny. Because Zayid does both. She also works with disabled children and tells jokes in the Middle East. And…

September 18, 2017 No Comments

Airbnb for Seniors

The Freebird Club is not, as you might expect, a collection of those loud guys from every concert ever discussing ways to get bands to actually play Freebird. It’s an Airbnb-like startup promoting travel and social connection among a demographic often overlooked by the tech crowd – seniors. The club’s members are all age 50+ and host or stay with…

September 15, 2017 No Comments

Nuns Block Pipeline Construction

In Pennsylvania’s rural Lancaster County, a group of nuns has staunchly refused to let an energy company build a natural gas pipeline through a cornfield – a place the whole community cherishes. Now the company is appealing to ’eminent domain’ as a way to work around their protest and build it anyway. The nuns replied “not so fast” and, on…

September 14, 2017 No Comments

Cop Takes Money from Street Vendor, Internet Cries Foul

This past Saturday, a hot dog vendor was serving folks at a UC Berkeley game when things got strange. A UC police officer passing students and alumni drinking alcohol on campus (which is technically illegal) approached the vendor, Juan, and wrote him a ticket for selling food without a license. What happened next is what many people from both the…

September 13, 2017 No Comments

DACA’s End Spells Trouble For American Innovation

As we wait to see how Congress will deal with the possible end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and restrictions on immigration become more stringent than they’ve ever been, we are beginning to wonder how different our country’s future may be. The National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) – a non-partisan, non-profit focused on policy research – published a…

September 12, 2017 No Comments

On 9/11, Canada Welcomed Delta Flight 15 With Open Arms

It was 9/11, 2001 and Delta Flight 15 was on its way home to the US from Germany when it got the call to land immediately. The closest airport was Gander, somewhere in Canada. They landed along with 37 other planes who’d received the same alert and started playing the waiting game. The travelers were just stuck in the terminal,…

September 11, 2017 No Comments

First Sustainable ‘Agrihood’ Gives Free Produce to 2,000 Detroit Residents

Nine-Year-Old Building Shelters for the Homeless

Rain Dove Says There’s Magic Between the Binary

Palestinian Muslim Comedian Breaking Rules

Airbnb for Seniors

Nuns Block Pipeline Construction

Cop Takes Money from Street Vendor, Internet Cries Foul

DACA’s End Spells Trouble For American Innovation

On 9/11, Canada Welcomed Delta Flight 15 With Open Arms

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